Taglines: In the tradition of Riverdance, one of the finest and most stunning performance films ever made.
Flamenco movie storyline. As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies.
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers are the only audience.
Flamenco is a 1995 Spanish documentary film directed by Carlos Saura with camerawork by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. The film is entirely musical and dancing vignettes, composed and photographed on a sound stage.
Performances by: Paco de Lucía, Joaquín Cortés, Manolo Sanlúcar, Lole y Manuel, La Paquera de Jerez, Fernanda de Utrera, José Menese, Enrique Morente, José Mercé, Farruco y Farruquito, Ketama, Manzanita, Maria Pagès and many others at the old Seville train station.
Flamenco (1997)
Directed by: Carlos Saura
Starring: La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlúcar, Joaquín Cortés, Manuel Moneo, Fernanda de Utrera, Mario Maya, Antonio Toscano, María Pagés, Manuela Carrasco
Screenplay by: Carlos Saura
Production Design by: Rafael Palmero
Cinematography by: Vittorio Storaro
Film Editing by: Pablo G. del Amo
Costume Design by: Amelia, Rafael Palmero, Graciela Rubio
Art Direction by: Eduardo Hidalgo hijo
Music by: José Miguel Carmona, Juan Carmona
Distributed by: New Yorker Films
Release Date: June 16, 1995 (Spain), April 25, 1997
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